In Spring 2019 I lecture the course
MTTTS17 Dimensionality Reduction and Visualization,
and the course
MTTTS11 Master's Seminar and Thesis,
and co-lecture the course
MTTS1 Statistical Analysis with Missing Data (Advanced),
at Tampere University.

Joni Pajarinen, Jaakko Peltonen, Mikko A. Uusitalo, and Ari Hottinen.
Latent state models of primary user behavior for opportunistic spectrum
access. In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio
Communications (PIMRC'09), pages 1267-1271. IEEE, 2009.
(preprint pdf,
final version on publisher
pages. Note: work was also supported by Academy of Finland decision 123983.)

Tapani Raiko and Jaakko Peltonen. Application of UCT search to
the connection games of Hex, Y, *Star, and Renkula! In
proceedings of the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference
(SteP 2008), Espoo, Finland, August 2008. See also the associated
3D boardgame.

Jaakko Peltonen and Samuel Kaski. Learning when only some of the
training data are from the same distribution as test data. Poster in
the NIPS 2006 workshop on Learning when test and training inputs
have different distributions, December 9, Whistler, Canada.
(abstract,
pdf extended abstract,
pdf poster in A0 size)

Recent Research Talks

This is a partial list of recent research talks I have given.

Jaakko Peltonen, AI Helsinki Seminar, January 28, 2019: Exploring Online Discussion with Probabilistic Models.
An overview of our work on topic modeling and interactive social media exploration.
(materials of the talk online)

Aalto University, Machine Learning Coffee Seminar, November 26, 2018: Exploring Large And Hierarchical Online Discussion Venues With Probabilistic Models.
An overview of our work on deep hierarhical topic modeling and interactive exploration of social media discussion forums.
(video of the talk available on YouTube)

University of Tampere, December 8, 2015: Statistical approaches for visual exploratory data analysis. An
overview of selected exploratory data analysis and visualization works.

University of Pittsburgh, September 1, 2015: Lost in Publications? How to Find Your Way in 50 Million Scientific Documents.
Describes the work on information seeking and cross-system transfer of open user models contained in the CIKM 2013 and UMAP 2015 publications.
(pdf slides, announcement of the talk in the CoMeT system)

University of Tampere, Methods Festival 2015, August 20, 2015: Better Information Seeking through Statistics: How to
Find Your Way in 50 Million Scientific Documents.

University of Szeged, Hungary, February 6, 2015: Lost in Publications? How to Find Your Way in 50 Million Scientific Documents.